Incident Responder Interview

Comprehensive interview preparation for incident response roles, covering crisis management, technical response, and post-incident activities.

Incident Classification
Crisis Management
Technical Response
Post-Incident

Technical Questions

Core technical questions specific to incident response and crisis management.

Incident Classification

Q: How do you classify security incidents?

Severity levels, impact assessment, business criticality

Q: Explain your incident triage process

Initial assessment, containment, escalation procedures

Q: How do you determine incident scope?

Asset identification, impact analysis, timeline reconstruction

Q: What's your approach to incident categorization?

Attack types, threat actors, TTPs, business impact

Crisis Management

Q: How do you handle crisis communication?

Stakeholder communication, executive updates, external coordination

Q: Explain your escalation procedures

Decision matrix, authority levels, notification protocols

Q: How do you manage incident teams?

Role assignment, coordination, resource allocation

Q: What's your approach to business continuity?

Critical systems, recovery procedures, service restoration

Technical Response

Q: How do you contain security incidents?

Network isolation, system quarantine, access revocation

Q: Explain your forensics approach

Evidence preservation, chain of custody, analysis techniques

Q: How do you eradicate threats?

Malware removal, system restoration, security hardening

Q: What's your approach to recovery?

System restoration, service validation, monitoring

Post-Incident Activities

Q: How do you conduct post-incident reviews?

Lessons learned, process improvement, documentation

Q: Explain your incident reporting process

Executive summaries, technical details, recommendations

Q: How do you implement lessons learned?

Process updates, tool improvements, training programs

Q: What's your approach to incident metrics?

MTTR, MTTC, incident frequency, resolution quality

Practical Scenarios

Real-world scenarios to test your practical incident response skills.

Incident Scenarios

Scenario: Ransomware outbreak response

Containment, communication, recovery, lessons learned

Scenario: Data breach incident response

Scope assessment, notification, remediation, compliance

Scenario: APT incident response

Advanced analysis, long-term monitoring, attribution

Scenario: Insider threat response

Behavioral analysis, access control, legal considerations

Response Coordination

Scenario: Multi-team incident coordination

Team coordination, communication, resource allocation

Scenario: Executive communication during crisis

Executive updates, business impact, decision support

Scenario: Legal and compliance coordination

Legal requirements, regulatory compliance, evidence handling

Scenario: External stakeholder communication

Customer communication, vendor coordination, public relations

Tools & Technologies

Essential tools and technologies every incident responder should know.

Incident Management

  • • ServiceNow
  • • Jira
  • • PagerDuty
  • • Slack
  • • Microsoft Teams

Forensics Tools

  • • Volatility
  • • Autopsy
  • • FTK
  • • EnCase
  • • Wireshark

Communication Tools

  • • Zoom
  • • WebEx
  • • Email systems
  • • SMS alerts
  • • Emergency contacts